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Biolab (artist's impression). Biolab is a facility designed to support biological experiments on micro-organisms, cells, tissue cultures, small plants and small invertebrates. The major objective of performing Life Sciences experiments in space is to identify the role that weightlessness plays at all levels of an organism, from the effects on a single cell up to a complex organism including humans. The Biolab facility will be launched inside the European Columbus laboratory.

Credits: ESA - D. Ducros

Last update: 23 July 2008

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European Drawer Rack (EDR)European Physiology Modules (EPM)European Transport Carrier (ETC)Fluid Science Laboratory (FSL)Microgravity Science Glovebox (MSG)

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